In Network Applet, Wireguard icon should not have priority over Wi-Fi

[blahma]

Our company recently enforces Wireguard for connecting to its servers. All other traffic goes off Wireguard as usual. But I now can't see the state of my Wi-Fi connection (on/off), signal strength, or the wireless network name, without clicking the Network Applet and researching in the popup menu. This is because the active Wireguard's icon has priority over the Wi-Fi icon. I could identify relevant code at:

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/blob/1c50d511b25f956e96003d697f1934c743a42d44/files/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/[email protected]/applet.js#L2516

I'm not interested in Wireguard's state (because it is always on for me, and should it be off, my company's servers would refuse connection and I'd find out) and I want to have the Wi-Fi icon back. Other distributions, such as Fedora, seem not to have this issue. Could the behavior of the applet be changed, or possibly an option introduced? My current workaround is commenting out the if-block referred to above.

[fosslover306]

I had this problem too when Was using a VPN, the best fix I can think of would be having wifi and ethernet variants with VPN lock symbls in the corner of them.

That way every use case gets suported wifi status+vpn, ethernet+vpn, and of course including wifi signal strenth indications.

So that would require 10 varients of wifi strength icons, 5 with vpn and 5 normal ones, and two varients of ethernet icons 1 with vpn and 1 without.

And i agree fully that a vpn icon hiding wifi and ethernet status is very annoying, to the point of making vpn's a pain to use over wifi espiecally.

[fosslover306]

I should be able to grab a copy of the icons, and scale the vpn icon into the corner of standard icons to make the alternete set.

wifi+vpn network icon set.zip

The original icons are also included to aid in future devolopment, as the currant adwaita theme is rather restricted with networking status icons, the fact they are black and white, only makes the problem worse, I am still making tweaks however, and will add color to make things easyier to recononize.